Dean McGrew Gilfillan

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dean McGrew Gilfillan, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Varennes, France, October 26, 1918. Captain Gilfillan destroyed two machine-guns and inflicted heavy losses on a column of German infantry after his tank had been set on fire by two direct hits by enemy artillery and he himself wounded by machine-gun fire. He left his tank only when explosion was imminent, was wounded a second time by shell fragments, but remained at his post until he had turned over his command to another officer.